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Mon, 19 Nov 2018 23:53:51 +0100Joomla! - Open Source Content Management/media/kunena/images/icons/rss.pngTopics in Category: Articles - Roland Arranger User Club Forumen-gbG-70 - Overriding the ROM styles - by: Dikihttp://www.roland-arranger.com/index.php/articles/33-g-70-overriding-the-rom-styles#128
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Essentially, unless you are 100% happy with the ROM styles, you are relegated to having to call up your edited ROM styles from the Performance List (if you have created a Performance using it) or laboriously hand navigate through the file structure of your stick to find it.

Now, this isn't a big deal if you, like me, prefer to set up your entire songlist in advance. But I know many of the more 'old school' arranger players still prefer to do things the old way... Find the style, find the sound, start playing. This used to be a pretty good system when arrangers had dozens of styles and a hundred or so sounds. Trouble is, with modern arrangers having 500+ or so styles and thousands of sounds, it really isn't practical.

Nowadays, on the BK and E-A series arrangers, about the only workaround to having quick access to edited ROM styles is to perhaps make a Performance List of each Style family and edit the ROM styles and store them in organized folders in your User Rhythms folder, and have the Performance point to them. Obviously, not as good as having front panel access to them (and it does kind of make the ten buttons that ONLY call up ROM styles rather a waste of space) but at least a bit easier than hunting through a disorganized My Rhythms folder for the style you want.

On a side note, any SERIOUS hacker types that want an interesting project, how about looking into the last BK OS update for the patch data for the ROM styles? Perhaps there's a way to hack the OS and insert edited style data to replace the factory edits? Not for the faint of heart, obviously, and nowhere near as easy as the old G/E series way.